How We Found the Best Toilet Paper

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Toilet paper is one item we can't live without and it's the topic of some very spirited conversations among friends as everyone seems to have an opinion and a favorite. How can you tell what is really the best? GHRI set out to find out, evaluating 22 different types of toilet paper sold under 12 different brand names.

We put the toilet paper through 11 different tests in the Lab and also asked for feedback from consumers to assess how they'll perform in the privacy of your bathroom at home. The four important tests described below really distinguished the super wipers from the just barely-do-the-jobbers.

Absorbency: How much water does each type of toilet paper hold? You don't have to use too much imagination to understand why this is a good indication of how it will work in real-life.

Dissolvability: Hey no one wants their toilet to have to work too hard!

Visual Quality Analysis: We rolled out yards and yards of each type, looking for tears, pinholes, and thin spots. High quality is just as important in TP as in napkins, T-shirts, or undies.

Wet and Dry Tensile Strength: While we all want toilet paper to dissolve quickly in the bowl, we don't want it to break down easily when we're using it. I probably don't have to spell out what these two strength tests tell us.

Now once you've found one that meets all the above criteria, you certainly want one that feels soft on your bottom...for this test we asked consumers to try 'em out and rate 'em.